Towson University

Feasibility and acceptability of a shelter-based health empowerment program for pregnant and parenting youth experiencing homelessness

Parenthood is common among youth experiencing homelessness (YEH), with multi-generational implications for health. Research on how to improve health among this historically marginalized population is limited. Our community-university partnership assessed the feasibility and accep...

AI-Mediated Work as Occupation: An Occupational Science Perspective on Meaning, Identity, and Justice

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of everyday work. Workers use it to prepare documents and evaluate information, while some may encounter it through systems that assign or assess their work. Research has examined productivity, organizational adoption, collaboration,...

Parenting Beyond the Home: Effects of Neighborhood Disorder and Social Relations on Family Management Practices

Family management practices can safeguard children and adolescents against the effects of neighborhood conditions such as disorder and violence. Drawing from Furstenberg and colleagues' (1999) family management model, we build on prior research incorporating the influence of neig...

Core Elements of Physiology: An Instructor Guide Series for Mechanisms and Logic in Human Physiology

Series overview and index for the Core Elements of Physiology instructor guides — eighteen open-access teaching documents accompanying Mechanisms and Logic in Human Physiology by Erik P. Silldorff and Gerald D. Robinson: one for each of the sixteen chapters, plus supplemental mod...

Core Elements of Physiology: An Instructor Guide Series for Mechanisms and Logic in Human Physiology

Series overview and index for the Core Elements of Physiology instructor guides — eighteen open-access teaching documents accompanying Mechanisms and Logic in Human Physiology by Erik P. Silldorff and Gerald D. Robinson: one for each of the sixteen chapters, plus supplemental mod...

Impact of Voice Onset Time on Phoneme Perception and Implications for a Language-Agnostic Hearing Assessment

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of native language on phoneme perception in normal-hearing (NH) adults representing the three most commonly spoken languages in the United States (English, Spanish, and Mandarin Chinese). Method: A prospective cross-sectio...

Addressing the Limits of Emx2 Therapy of Glioblastoma Multiforme by Transgene Insulation and Epigenetic Pharmacological Intervention

Introduction/Objectives: Implicated in the regionalization of the anterior central nervous system (CNS) and the progression of pallial astrogliogenesis, the transcription factor gene EMX2 has been reported to be specifically silenced in several tumors, both non-neural and neural....

Interpretable Modeling of Driver Attention Shifts with a Vision–Language Model

Driver gaze is commonly modeled as a spatial heatmap, but heatmaps alone are difficult for humans to interpret because they do not explain which road object or region is being monitored or why an attention shift may matter. This study examines whether minimal human-grounded super...

From Symmetry to Invariance: Learning Galois Equivalent Representations in Finite Fields

Neural networks can learn algebraic operations from finite examples,but it remains unclear whether this ability transfers acrossmathematically equivalent representations of the same operation. Westudy this question through multiplication in finite fields underchanges of basis. Th...

From Symmetry to Invariance: Learning Galois-Equivalent Representations in Finite Fields

Neural networks can learn algebraic operations from finite examples,but it remains unclear whether such generalization transfers acrossmathematically equivalent representations of the same operation. Westudy this question through multiplication in finite fields underchanges of ba...

Financial market discipline and new business formation

Abstract This study examines the effect of public disclosure of financial misconduct in the retail banking industry on the real economy. We propose that strengthened public disclosure of misconduct imposes disciplinary pressure which improves services and intermediation in the re...

Attitudes Toward a University Food Insecurity Program

Food insecurity affects over 30% of United States college and university students. Furthermore, food insecurity has been linked to poor academic performance among college students. This study assesses attitudes toward a food insecurity program, which was implemented at a large, p...

A systematic review of African-centered school-based interventions.

Cultural-specific interventions often outperform standard protocols because they align with the identities and lived experiences of the youth they serve. For Black students, African-centered approaches have demonstrated improvements in social-emotional functioning, mental health,...

Partnering Symbolic Interaction and Queer Theory: Mutualism for Contemporary Family Life

ABSTRACT We propose the intentional partnered use of symbolic interactionism and queer theory to enrich Family Science. Where symbolic interactionism emphasizes the norms and meanings individuals co‐construct through social interactions, queer theory challenges those normative as...